In short, Embiid, who has pretty much made a living by taunting his opponents as much as toasting them in the post, got under Westbrook’s skin when Embiid gloated a bit after Steven Adams fouled out of the contest in the third overtime.

After the game, Embiid was asked about the brief encounter that he and Westbrook had after the buzzer had sounded, and ‘The Process’ didn’t let the opportunity to throw some shade at the league’s reigning MVP pass him by.

“He told me to go home,” Embiid said when asked what Westbrook said to him after the buzzer.

“I mean this is my home, so I guess it’s time for him to go home. They won the game, I give them a lot of credit, he did a lot of things, but the dude shot like 10-of-33. I wish I would have shot 33 times.

“I guess we would have had a better chance of actually winning the game. But you know, he told me to go home, and this is my home and I ain’t going nowhere.”

To Embiid’s point, his game-high 34 points came on an efficient 11-for-20 shooting performance from the field. Westbrook took 13 more shots to produce six less points.

Embiid is probably correct. He was almost unstoppable all night. He shot a combined 5-for-7 in the game’s three overtime periods, but ironically attempted just one shot after Adams fouled out and was replaced by the much smaller Patrick Patterson.

So yeah, perhaps the Sixers would have had a better shot at pulling out the win if Embiid approached 30 shots, but, for now, we’ll just consider this to be a part of the process.

And maybe next time, Embiid will save his antics for after the final buzzer has sounded.

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